Beautifully crafted for Magento, Magic Slideshow is ready for use on your hompage, product pages, recently viewed products block and any CMS page you want.

This Magento image slideshow extension instantly adds life to your pages, with fading Ken Burns, image shuffle and a dramatic full-screen slideshow option. With 30 customization settings, Magic Slideshow can be tweaked to look just how you want it.

Key features

Works with every Magento version

Magic Slideshow is compatible with all Magento versions: Magento 1.x, Magento 2.x both Community and Enterprise editions. With constant updates, you can be confident that your slideshows will stay perfect and that your Magento website will stay secure.

Beautiful, customisable effects

Choose from many popular styles to make it look perfect on your site. The settings page provides 23 adjustable options to change effects, bullets, thumbnails, arrows, speed and more. This JavaScript slideshow which is compatible with and without jQuery.

Support you can count on

We understand that your success is our success. That's why every Magic Toolbox customer receives free support (30 minutes of free technical support and free email support while your license is active). If you ever encounter any problems with our slideshow extension for Magento, please don't hesitate to contact us.

If you need help, please send questions to our support team. Include your page URL and if you'd like us to make changes, a login to your Magento admin. We reply to every email as quickly as possible (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm UTC).

If you need help, please send questions to our support team. Include your page URL and if you'd like us to make changes, a login to your Magento admin. We reply to every email as quickly as possible (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm UTC).

Detailed description

You're excited that your Magento store is now live. Your products are ready. But how do you grab the attention of potential customers?

A home page image slideshow could be your fix, by grabbing visitor attention immediately. But could it be a potential conversion killer? There's been a debate for years whether slideshows on a homepage help or hinder ecommerce stores. While the debate continues, JavaScript slideshows are more popular than ever.

While a slider might not immediately increase your revenue, it will give an instant WOW factor to your site. This Magento image slideshow extension is ready to use on your store straight away.

Why are home page sliders so popular?

The fact is, a banner slider looks modern. Large, wide images influence how a visitor feels. And if that feeling sells a lifestyle, you've just hooked a visitor into your world.

Things to keep in mind when you're creating an image slideshow...

Keep slides concise. This means clear & direct messages. You should tell a quick message in a short time. If you have no choice but to use lots of wording, slow down the speed of this Magento image slider. There's nothing worse than being halfway through reading text and the slide changes. Change 'Duration slide displayed' option on your Magic Slideshow Settings page to the speed you want.

Switch your slideshow from autoplay to manual to put the customer in control. It is their decision when to move to the next slide. A very easy change to make, just set 'Autoplay slideshow' to 'No'.

If you prefer to keep your slideshow as autoplay, consider including thumbnail images or bullets for customers to navigate between slides. Choose 'bullets' or 'thumbnails' from the 'Selectors style' option. Then choose the position they appear (top, bottom, left, right) under 'Selectors position'. Again, this means the shopper is in control, but it also shows at a glance how many slides are included.

How many slides should you use?

This is up to you. In December 2015, Microsoft used 2 slides on their homepage. Use whatever you think is appropriate. Just remember to keep the communication clear and concise.

Your mobile users can simply swipe your slideshows left/right to change the slide. Magic Slideshow is both responsive and optimized for touch screens and desktops, to suit all your visitors whether they're using desktops or mobile devices.

Thanks to the responsive nature of Magic Slideshow, your sliders will automatically scale up and down depending on the users screen size.

To keep your homepage banner fresh for repeat customers to your site, set the slider to shuffle via the 'Shuffle order of slides' option.

Another popular feature is to pan & zoom each image, commonly known as the Ken Burns effect. Set the 'Use Ken Burns effect' option to 'Yes' for each image to move in/out slowly.

So far we've spoken about the look & feel of your image slideshow. But what about moving visitors forward? The link option is a powerful feature. Every image in your slideshow can link to a different URL, to encourage users to take action, wherever they click on your image.

These are only some of the ways it's possible to customize this Magento image slideshow. Magic Slideshow can also be enabled on your Product page, Recently Viewed Product blocks & any CMS page.

However you choose to display your images, adding a slideshow component has never been easier. Download the free trial for your Magento store now.

Customer reviews

Thanks a lot for all the quick replies om my emails + installing the Magic Toolbox Slider on my website. Even after the payment, Igor still helped me to make the slider work even better (removing white spaces, etc.). I will definitely spread the word about your company's products and service. Wish you all the best. Best regards, Shannon Ray Timmer (a happy customer)

Other Magento extensions

You have now added this JavaScript slideshow to your Magento home page or other page. We provide free support for all our software, if you would like help, please contact us.

An alternative to this Magento module is Magic Scroll, which can slide many images at one time. It is perfect for organising product images, showing off your bestsellers, new arrivals, latest news and related products.

You can set your slideshow to fade from one image to the next and change the fading time and fading slideshow duration. For more examples, please try the Magic Slideshow examples page.